Justin Wolfe

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment.

One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

Better than bottled saliva

Water?

Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing The justice said that the call was a job reference for one of his former clerks and that the request to stay the president-elect’s sentencing did not come up.

Alito stays on brand

27 Shows to Watch This Winter A ton of intriguing shows are coming, including the gruesome frontier drama “American Primeval” and Robert De Niro’s first American regular-series role.

I came for the recommendations; I'm staying for the snark!

New Orleans updates: 10 dead in 'terrorist attack' with pickup in New Orleans, local officials say A car may have plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street early on Wednesday, the New Orleans Police Department reported, according to ABC News affiliate WGNO.

This is just horrific. I can’t believe I’m waking up to this news.

Ooof, it is really hard. Take care

Trump and His Picks Threaten More Lawsuits Over Critical Coverage The small flurry of threatened defamation suits is the latest sign that the incoming Trump administration appears poised to do what it can to crack down on unfavorable media coverage.

Jeez! Thanks ABC

I've never understood why the post office is derided for not turning a profit, when it sits alongside such financial losers as ... the military, Medicare, the US House of Representatives, and literally everything other than the IRS.

And Sesame Street. Those puppet fuckers!

Fury for denied insurance claims? Nah, I’m saving this righteous anger for drones!

It keeps happening and it’s going keep happening. Blood on the hands of Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas, Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Coney-Barrett #fuckDobbs

Where yat? I’m assuming not the balmy shores of Lake Erie

Daaayamn! The Empire Strikes Back!

This seems like a understatement

Also, so much alliteration

I wonder if this is so Trump will he able to roll it back and have something to crow about, take a victory lap, and maybe take a bit longer before he kills the whole agency

Amen brother!

Star Wars. Yoda is played by a person

“It’s not so routine these days. Just now and then.”

New Orleans clergy abuse: details emerge after retired priest admits to kidnapping and child rape Victim was going to testify about being forced to see a psychiatrist for lying or face expulsion from school after rape by Lawrence Hecker, now 93

Hierarchy of Catholic Church across the globe should be on their knees daily begging forgiveness, if not rotting in jail. Silence = Complicity

Black Republicans feel left out of Trump’s 2nd-term picks As President-elect Donald Trump fills out his Cabinet and closest advisers, African American Republicans ask why more Black people haven’t been selected.

Surprise, surprise, surprise

No matter how demoralized we are in today's America, I'll always have this selfie of me meeting Jane Goodall.

Here's a list of people on BlueSky contributing to the debate about economic growth vs environmental sustainability. This includes those writing specifically on growth positions, such as green growth, degrowth and agrowth. The list also covers folks promoting beyond-GDP metrics.
go.bsky.app/NKz1ex3

“Conservative voices”, Nazis. I guess for RedState it’s potato, potahto

Scientists say it involves a fuckload of guilt

1. This Thanksgiving, you and your family can all agree on one thing: salmonella is gross.

They’re resilient little germs that can survive hours to days on surfaces, and they can’t be killed by drying or freezing. Here’s how to keep them away 🧵

A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

"The book, Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, illustrates with black-and-white photographs and descriptive personal essays how U.S. foreign policy played out and fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador."
www.npr.org/sections/the...

Yes, doomsday is always "an exciting find"

Chart showing average number of children killed per year in global conflicts. Ukraine - 501. Syria - 4,725. Gaza - 11,355

Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.